Urologic Oncology Branch
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America
Dr. Srinivasan is a Staff Clinician in the Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute (NCI). He obtained his M.D., from the Bangalore Medical College in India and completed his Ph.D., in biomedical sciences at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He came to NCI in 1999 after completing his Internal Medicine Residency training at the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, to pursue a fellowship in Medical Oncology/Hematology. After completing his fellowship, he joined the Urologic Oncology Branch, where he is developing treatment strategies and clinical trials for patients with both hereditary and non-hereditary forms of kidney cancer. He is currently investigating a variety of newer 'targeted' agents in clear cell and papillary kidney cancer, as well as hereditary kidney cancer syndromes such as von Hippel-Lindau, hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer and hereditary papillary renal cell cancer (HPRC).
kidney cancer